Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothills
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The resulting sandstone cliffs, canyon rims, wooded highlands, tumbling cascades, and swimming holes are a nature enthusiast’s playground.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Probably the most noteworthy lunar feature is Tycho, a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Coster-Waldau travels to the Andean mountains, the Ganges River, the Ecuadorian rainforest, Paris and more.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Written over the course of a year and a half and recorded in Los Angeles between cups of tea and views of the mountains, Lu compares the project to a short story collection, each song melding into its own theme.—
John Lonsdale,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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The driftwood trees help to blunt the effects of hurricanes—and, thus, slow down erosion—on the remaining woods and uplands.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Sep. 2025
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This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Purple Tea Purple tea comes from the same plant as green and black teas, but grows in high altitudes in Kenya.—
Caitlin Pagán,
Verywell Health,
2 Oct. 2025
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The test confirmed effective multi-stage boosting and control at high altitudes.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Levelle Bailey has two elevations left, and rookie Jordan Turner has all three elevations remaining.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
29 Sep. 2025
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Across the region, overnight lows are expected to range in the low 60s to upper 50s on the Valley floor and low elevations with higher elevations seeing temperatures drop to the low 40s.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Clean the base of the toilet that is on the floor and all the knobs, too.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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No more hanging socks from cabinet knobs or relying on campground and public laundromats.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Solar prominences are enormous loops of hot plasma that erupt from the sun's surface, tethered by magnetic fields.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Foothills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothills. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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